Hey everyone! I know I haven't posted in a long time, but I'm moving my account → @robotsneedhugs
I'll be re-following most people, but if you're following me now, please re-follow me over there. Thanks!
Hey everyone! I know I haven't posted in a long time, but I'm moving my account → @robotsneedhugs
I'll be re-following most people, but if you're following me now, please re-follow me over there. Thanks!
ethical quandary, thoughts welcome
What are the ethics behind buying bad people's works second-hand?
One could argue it's ok because you aren't paying the bad creator, but it seems wrong to tie your system of ethics to money.
Alternatively, one could argue that the work is ethically "tainted" and should not be consumed, but that seems too strong sometimes.
I feel like "creator vs. creation" and "don't support bad people" come to a head when we're talking second-hand sales.
What do you think?
For this week's blog post, I did a color scheme analysis of Adventure Time's title cards: https://jonstoler.me/blog/adventure-time-color-analysis-part-1
Next week I'll be doing a similar analysis for the frames of the episodes themselves!
Also it's helpful if you, like, forget to turn your screen off when you go to bed or whatever.
I normally have it set up, but I recently updated my phone and haven't copied my keys over yet. :(
Okay, yes I did.
To be precise, I only crashed the display service on my computer. But I have no other way or controlling it.
Kids, install and setup SSH from your phones so you can pkill non-terminating programs!
Another time travel idea that I found very entertaining is the one from HPMOR (about time turners): you can never *change* the past, there is no separate past/present/future, reality is just computed in one swoop in a self-consistent way.
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Wondering if the prevalence of smart phones, spotify, and youtube is getting people into music at a younger age.
But it's not like music was that hard to find when I was growing up either... We had radio and boomboxes, even ipods and whatnot
I got a bunch second-hand at a local flea market a few weeks ago, most notably Garbage by Garbage.
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